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Old 09-11-2019, 05:53 PM   #348
Groundhog
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Join Date: Dec 2003
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Yeah fun game to watch, Pop's reluctance to play any bigs meant Gobert ran riot. The last couple of minutes of the game in particular he was huge on both ends.

USA with some real poor decision making and turnovers in the last 2 minutes also. I think most of the blame for this result has to go with the guys who didn't turn up versus those that did., and I think Kemba and Mitchell are perhaps the only two ideal guys you'd want to return on the Olympics' squad. I thought Myles Turner would've been better in this format, but alas no. Pops sat him a lot, but no question he was a bit shaky on the defensive end in particular.

Australia stays undefeated and is through to the Semis with our win over a sneaky good Czech Republic, giving us two shots at our first medal. If we get the revenge win over Spain (re: our Olympics clash in Brazil) it's for gold against winner of France-Argentina, if we lose it's bronze versus the loser of that game. Already our highest placing at a world cup and first time we've ever finished on top of Team USA in any international tourney.
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